@robinmay9.bsky.social
Professor at University of Birmingham, UK and Gresham College. Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Food Standards Agency. Views very much my own (and occasionally someone else's too).
🖥️ The MOOC “Medical Mycology” is open for registration!
👉 bit.ly/medical-myco...
🍄 Welcome to the fascinating world of fungi, agents of major infectious diseases! Discover the taxonomy, ecology, identification of fungi, epidemiology of infectious diseases, drugs, link with HIV…Share this info!
Just in case Pinewood Studies are reading this, then I'm more than happy to discuss my consultancy fee with you (I'm thinking maybe a hand-me-down Bond dinner suit - without bullet holes - and a quick spin in the Aston Martin?)
30.07.2025 14:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is the job I've been doing for the last five years and it is FANTASTIC. So if your finger is hovering uncertainly over the 'apply now' button, then stop hesitating and press it!
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
Great to be able to talk about the impact of climate change on infections at today's 'Leave No One Behind' schools' conference with @mulberrytrust.bsky.social @greshamcollege.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Yet another reason (as if we needed one) to get to #netzero ASAP.
07.07.2025 12:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent talk from @robinmay9.bsky.social about his life, David Attenborough being his inspo and the Food Standards Agency 🦠🥪
04.07.2025 11:08 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is a very nice testament to the strength of UK science, not to mention the importance of international collaboration - congratulations awardees, one and all! www.russellgroup.ac.uk/news/uk-take...
27.06.2025 18:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Woah, they've also got a tool where you can listen to the image: skyviewer.app/skysynth
23.06.2025 15:47 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
125 years of preparation, and @unibirmingham.bsky.social is looking at its most spectacular... #UoB125
21.06.2025 17:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A @greshamcollege.bsky.social short on Rethinking the 'reincarnation' of Dire Wolves. Or rather, why they aren't Dire Wolves at all (sorry to disappoint all you Game of Thrones fans out there):
youtu.be/Scesbs7GT6U?...
In our latest blog post we catch up with #BlavatnikAwards Life Sciences Laureate @stewartlab.bsky.social, who recently attended the Blavatnik Awards ceremony and public symposium and gave talks about his preventive health work on preterm infant microbiomes 🫄👶 lister-institute.org.uk/congratulati...
28.04.2025 13:39 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Tickets open: The Future of Immunity
gres.hm/future-immunity
Our understanding of our immune system is vastly different from 50 years ago, w/ modern therapies that would have once seemed like science fiction.
@robinmay9.bsky.social asks: what next for #immunity?
@imibirmingham.bsky.social
Every time I hear someone playing the free piano at Euston Station, blissfully unaware of the small crowd of commuters tapping their feet in time behind them, it restores my faith in the future of civilisation...
07.05.2025 19:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today at 6pm: Do Computers Get Sick? How Humans and Computers Fight Viruses
Watch via: gres.hm/computer-virus
Profs @robinmay9.bsky.social & @cyberbaines.bsky.social ask whether there are similarities between human & #computer immunity? Can we use discoveries in one to help protect the other?
“Science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party.”
EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent.
In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.
How do vaccines work?
Prof @robinmay9.bsky.social explains how #vaccination changed the world, saving millions of lives and enabling us to eradicate a lethal disease for the first time in human history...
Watch full lecture: gres.hm/how-vaccines
#immunology #vaccine
Delighted to see this one published in @asm.org mBio today. It's possibly the longest-running project we've ever had in the lab, all started by the throwaway question, "Are there any plants that are pathogens of animals...?"
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Definitely a career highlight thus far...😉
www.linkedin.com/posts/food-s...
A mucus-eating microbe might be one of the best friends your gut has 🦠
Former Springboard awardee @lucyicm.bsky.social explores how Akkermansia muciniphila supports our immune system, and why that matters for disease prevention ❤️🩹
👇 Read more via @uk.theconversation.com
This is quite the clutch of Lister Fellows at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! lister-institute.org.uk/shining-a-li...
15.04.2025 10:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Our antibiotics are under threat.
Join Andi Biotic’s mission to #KeepAntibioticsWorking.
Share our video and blog post with your network: ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/07/w...
This is going to be a fun one (even more so than usual!) because it's a double act between me and @cyberbaines.bsky.social. Easy questions to me, please, and all tricky ones to Vic! 😉
09.04.2025 09:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Happy birthday @foodgov.bsky.social - 25 years young yesterday! That's a quarter of a century keeping food safe, with a huge amount of underpinning science on everything from 'traffic light' nutrition labels to catching food fraudsters: science.food.gov.uk
02.04.2025 08:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows five speakers four of which are female and one male from the Institute of Microbiology and Infection speaking today the Microbiology Society Annual Conference
We are in Liverpool this week at the @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference
our IMI line up today looks like this .. #Microbio25
Delighted to have been a (very small!) part of this, along with so many great colleagues from the world of mycology!
27.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's the @britsocimm.bsky.social Vaccine Engagement Day tomorrow and by amazing coincidence I'll be giving a @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture on - you've guessed it - vaccines! Sign-up to watch free in person or online here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/how...
25.03.2025 23:15 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Tomorrow is Vaccine Engagement Day! 🚀
Get involved in this important initiative which aims to empower informed decisions and spread positivity about vaccines.
👉 Check out our webpage to find out how to participate: bit.ly/3Rasp6s
#CelebrateVaccines
Fantastic to hear an amazing double-act of presentations today from the newest @unibirmingham.bsky.social @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social fellows, @therad-lab.bsky.social and @sarahdimeloe.bsky.social. Congratulations both...!!
21.03.2025 16:39 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🚀 Careers Week Keynote with Prof. Robin May
(@robinmay9.bsky.social)
From plant sciences to FSA Chief Scientific Advisor—exploring science, policy & leadership in government.
📅 Mar 28
⏰ 9 AM CT | 2 PM BST | 3 PM CEST
🔗 Register: ow.ly/22an50Viat4
#CareersWeek #STEMCareers #Networking
Excellent weekend discovery: the @the-herbert.bsky.social museum in Coventry. Fascinating and eclectic collection (George Eliot's writing desk was my personal favourite) and a great independent cafe too.
15.03.2025 18:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cockatoo cooking (apparently they like blueberry-flavoured noodles.🤮 Each to their own, I guess):
Innovative flavoring behavior in Goffin’s cockatoos: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
